This study is aimed at understanding the effect of shapes of floorplates of buildings on office layouts accommodated in them. It constructs a configurational model and proposes that floorplate shapes influence the spatial integration of layouts according to the design principles used for generating the layouts. Gauging the potential of building shells for accommodating various office layouts is...

There is a variety of alternatives in office layouts. Yet the theoretical basis and criteria for predicting how well these layouts accommodate employees are poorly understood. The objective of this study was to evaluate criteria for selecting office layouts. Intensive computer workers worked in simulated office layouts in a controlled experimental laboratory. Eye movement measures indicate that...

In an offshore wind farm, the turbines are connected to a transformer by cable routes which cannot cross each other. Finding the minimum cost array cable layout thus amounts to a vehicle routing problem with the additional constraints that the routes must be embedded in the plane. For this problem, both exact and heuristic methods are of interest. We optimize cable layouts for real-world offsho...

This paper describes a new approach to managing array data layouts to optimize performance for scientific codes. Prior research has shown that changing data layouts (e.g., interleaving arrays) can improve performance. However, there have been two major reasons why such optimizations are not widely used: (1) the need to select different layouts for different computing platforms, and (2) the cost...

We present a novel algorithm to compute cache-efficient layouts of bounding volume hierarchies (BVHs) of polygonal models. Our approach does not make any assumptions about the cache parameters or block sizes of the memory hierarchy. We introduce a new probabilistic model to predict the runtime access patterns of a BVH. Our layout computation algorithm utilizes parent-child and spatial localitie...